A new project aims to boost fish populations in the Galloway Forest. Forestry and Land Scotland and Galloway Fisheries Trust have joined forces to restore 23 hectares of peatland as a forest bog at ...
New research indicates that restoration of peatlands can result in climate mitigation within just a few decades. In Finland, some 60,000 hectares of previously forestry-drained peatlands have already ...
Annual peatland fires in Indonesia affect ecology, air quality, nutrient distribution of the soil, and human health. A modeling study finds that under current climate change projections and with rapid ...
Restoration of forestry-drained peatlands typically leads to development of relatively dry moss-hummock bogs with low methane emissions. The photo presents a peatland area with thick moss-hummock ...
Work has started on a project to restore more than 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of peatland near Loch Ness. Rewilding Affric Highlands is leading a partnership of charities and private landowners to ...
EurekAlert!: Thinning turned an upland forest into a temporary carbon source and made a peatland forest an even stronger carbon source
Thinning turned an upland forest into a temporary carbon source and made a peatland forest an even stronger carbon source
Over the past two decades, Sumatra’s peatland forests have undergone a significant decline, losing approximately 3 million hectares at an annual deforestation rate averaging 150 thousand hectares.
The world’s peatlands are highly diverse, from moss dominated, boreal and alpine Sphagnum bogs to tropical peat swamp forests with trees up to 70 m tall, yet they all share distinctive, harsh, ...